Index of “What Is” Articles

Here are two indexes to the articles in my “What Is” series, the first arranged in Alphabetical Order and the second in Reverse Chronological order.

The articles are also available in PDF form on GitHub.

Alphabetical Order

  1. Fifty “What Is” Articles
  2. What Is a (Non)normal Matrix?
  3. What Is a Block Matrix?
  4. What Is a Blocked Algorithm?
  5. What Is a Cholesky Factorization?
  6. What Is a Circulant Matrix?
  7. What Is a Companion Matrix?
  8. What Is a Condition Number?
  9. What Is a Correlation Matrix?
  10. What Is a Diagonalizable Matrix?
  11. What is a Diagonally Dominant Matrix?
  12. What Is a Flop?
  13. What Is a Fractional Matrix Power?
  14. What Is a Fréchet Derivative?
  15. What Is a Generalized Inverse of a Matrix?
  16. What Is a Hadamard Matrix?
  17. What Is a Hessenberg Matrix?
  18. What Is a Householder Matrix?
  19. What Is a Matrix Function?
  20. What Is a Matrix Norm?
  21. What Is a Matrix Square Root?
  22. What Is a Matrix?
  23. What Is a Modified Cholesky Factorization?
  24. What Is a Nilpotent Matrix?
  25. What Is a Permutation Matrix?
  26. What Is a Pseudo-Orthogonal Matrix?
  27. What Is a QR Factorization?
  28. What Is a Random Orthogonal Matrix?
  29. What Is a Rank-Revealing Factorization?
  30. What Is a Schur Decomposition?
  31. What is a Sparse Matrix?
  32. What Is a Stochastic Matrix?
  33. What Is a Submatrix?
  34. What Is a Symmetric Indefinite Matrix?
  35. What Is a Symmetric Positive Definite Matrix?
  36. What Is a Toeplitz Matrix?
  37. What Is a Totally Nonnegative Matrix?
  38. What Is a Tridiagonal Matrix?
  39. What Is a Unitarily Invariant Norm?
  40. What Is a Vandermonde Matrix?
  41. What Is a Vector Norm?
  42. What Is an Eigenvalue?
  43. What Is an Invariant Subspace?
  44. What Is an LU Factorization?
  45. What Is an M-Matrix?
  46. What Is an Orthogonal Matrix?
  47. What Is A\A?
  48. What Is Backward Error?
  49. What Is Bfloat16 Arithmetic?
  50. What Is Fast Matrix Multiplication?
  51. What Is Floating-Point Arithmetic?
  52. What Is Gershgorin’s Theorem?
  53. What Is IEEE Standard Arithmetic?
  54. What Is Iterative Refinement?
  55. What is Numerical Stability?
  56. What Is Rounding?
  57. What Is Stochastic Rounding?
  58. What Is the Adjugate of a Matrix?
  59. What is the Cayley–Hamilton Theorem?
  60. What Is the Complex Step Approximation?
  61. What Is the CS Decomposition?
  62. What Is the Determinant of a Matrix?
  63. What Is the Frank Matrix?
  64. What Is the Gerstenhaber Problem?
  65. What Is the Growth Factor for Gaussian Elimination?
  66. What Is the Hilbert Matrix?
  67. What Is the Inertia of a Matrix?
  68. What Is the Jordan Canonical Form?
  69. What Is the Kac–Murdock–Szegö Matrix?
  70. What is the Kronecker Product?
  71. What Is the Log-Sum-Exp Function?
  72. What Is the Logarithmic Norm?
  73. What Is the Matrix Exponential?
  74. What Is the Matrix Inverse?
  75. What Is the Matrix Logarithm?
  76. What Is the Matrix Sign Function?
  77. What Is the Matrix Unwinding Function?
  78. What Is the Minimal Polynomial of a Matrix?
  79. What Is the Nearest Positive Semidefinite Matrix?
  80. What Is the Nearest Symmetric Matrix?
  81. What Is the Numerical Range of a Matrix?
  82. What Is the Pascal Matrix?
  83. What Is the Perron–Frobenius Theorem?
  84. What is the Polar Decomposition?
  85. What Is the Pseudoinverse of a Matrix?
  86. What Is the Schur Complement of a Matrix?
  87. What Is the Second Difference Matrix?
  88. What Is the Sherman–Morrison–Woodbury Formula?
  89. What Is the Singular Value Decomposition?
  90. What Is the Softmax Function?
  91. What Is the Spectral Radius of a Matrix?
  92. What Is the Sylvester Equation?
  93. What Is the Trace of a Matrix?
  94. What Is the Wilson Matrix?
  95. “What Is” Series

Reverse Chronological order

  1. What Is the Spectral Radius of a Matrix?
  2. What Is a Hessenberg Matrix?
  3. What Is an Invariant Subspace?
  4. What Is a Submatrix?
  5. What Is a Flop?
  6. What Is the Pseudoinverse of a Matrix?
  7. What Is the Numerical Range of a Matrix?
  8. What Is the Schur Complement of a Matrix?
  9. What Is the Minimal Polynomial of a Matrix?
  10. What Is Iterative Refinement?
  11. What Is the Trace of a Matrix?
  12. What Is a Diagonalizable Matrix?
  13. What Is a Stochastic Matrix?
  14. What Is the Inertia of a Matrix?
  15. What Is Gershgorin’s Theorem?
  16. What Is a Nilpotent Matrix?
  17. What Is an Eigenvalue?
  18. What Is a Symmetric Indefinite Matrix?
  19. What Is a Toeplitz Matrix?
  20. What Is a Circulant Matrix?
  21. What Is Fast Matrix Multiplication?
  22. What Is the Pascal Matrix?
  23. What Is a Schur Decomposition?
  24. What Is a Permutation Matrix?
  25. What Is the Matrix Inverse?
  26. What Is A\A?
  27. What Is the Jordan Canonical Form?
  28. What Is the Second Difference Matrix?
  29. What Is the Frank Matrix?
  30. What Is the Logarithmic Norm?
  31. What Is a Tridiagonal Matrix?
  32. What Is a Blocked Algorithm?
  33. What Is a Matrix Norm?
  34. What Is a Vector Norm?
  35. What Is a Totally Nonnegative Matrix?
  36. What Is the Perron–Frobenius Theorem?
  37. What Is the Kac–Murdock–Szegö Matrix?
  38. What Is the Determinant of a Matrix?
  39. What Is a Vandermonde Matrix?
  40. What Is the Wilson Matrix?
  41. What Is a Rank-Revealing Factorization?
  42. What Is a Pseudo-Orthogonal Matrix?
  43. What Is an LU Factorization?
  44. Fifty “What Is” Articles
  45. What is a Diagonally Dominant Matrix?
  46. What Is a Companion Matrix?
  47. What Is an M-Matrix?
  48. What Is a Unitarily Invariant Norm?
  49. What Is the Nearest Positive Semidefinite Matrix?
  50. What Is the Nearest Symmetric Matrix?
  51. What Is the Softmax Function?
  52. What Is the Log-Sum-Exp Function?
  53. What Is a Modified Cholesky Factorization?
  54. What Is the Matrix Sign Function?
  55. What Is a Fractional Matrix Power?
  56. What Is the Matrix Unwinding Function?
  57. What Is a (Non)normal Matrix?
  58. What Is the Matrix Logarithm?
  59. What Is a QR Factorization?
  60. What is the Cayley–Hamilton Theorem?
  61. What Is the CS Decomposition?
  62. What Is the Singular Value Decomposition?
  63. What Is the Complex Step Approximation?
  64. What Is the Sherman–Morrison–Woodbury Formula?
  65. What Is a Block Matrix?
  66. What Is a Householder Matrix?
  67. What is a Sparse Matrix?
  68. What Is the Sylvester Equation?
  69. What is the Kronecker Product?
  70. What Is the Gerstenhaber Problem?
  71. What Is a Cholesky Factorization?
  72. What is Numerical Stability?
  73. What is the Polar Decomposition?
  74. What Is a Symmetric Positive Definite Matrix?
  75. What Is the Growth Factor for Gaussian Elimination?
  76. What Is Stochastic Rounding?
  77. What Is the Hilbert Matrix?
  78. What Is a Fréchet Derivative?
  79. What Is the Adjugate of a Matrix?
  80. What Is a Matrix Function?
  81. What Is Bfloat16 Arithmetic?
  82. What Is the Matrix Exponential?
  83. What Is a Matrix Square Root?
  84. What Is IEEE Standard Arithmetic?
  85. What Is Floating-Point Arithmetic?
  86. What Is Rounding?
  87. What Is a Random Orthogonal Matrix?
  88. What Is a Correlation Matrix?
  89. What Is a Hadamard Matrix?
  90. What Is an Orthogonal Matrix?
  91. What Is a Generalized Inverse of a Matrix?
  92. What Is a Matrix?
  93. What Is Backward Error?
  94. What Is a Condition Number?
  95. “What Is” Series